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A Stone’s Throw Away From Everybody
Truth finds us in different ways. Sometimes we learn what something means, not in a classroom but in a hospital. Several years ago, I was visiting a man dying of
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Holy And Unholy Fear
Not all fear is created equal, at least not religiously. There’s a fear that’s healthy and good, a sign of maturity and love. There’s also a fear that’s bad, that
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Searching for God Among Many Voices
We are surrounded by many voices. There’s rarely a moment within our waking lives that someone or something isn’t calling out to us and, even in our sleep, dreams and
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Sublimation And The Sublime
Celebration is a paradoxical thing, created by a dynamic interplay between anticipation and fulfillment, longing and inconsummation, the ordinary and the special, work and play. Life and love must be
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Consecrated by Circumstance and Need
We can lose our freedom for different reasons and, sometimes, for the best of reasons. Imagine this scenario: You are on your way to a restaurant to meet a friend
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Porous and Buffered Personalities
A friend of mine tells this story: As a young boy in the 1950s he was struck down with pneumonia. His family lived in a small town that had neither
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Thou Shalt Not Kill!
An old axiom suggests that the sixth commandment gets all the ink, but the fifth commandment is the one that does us in. This is quite accurate. We are always
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A Christian Attitude Regarding the Salvation of Non-Christians
As Christians we are asked to carry a very real tension in terms of how we understand thesalvation of non-Christians because we have two seemingly conflicting teachings within our scriptures
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In Gratitude
As a columnist, I’ve always harbored a certain paranoia about being overly-personal or exhibitionistic in my writing or in thinking that my own emotional ups and downs are of interest
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On Mourning and Dancing
Henri Nouwen used to publish some of his diaries under the title, On Mourning and Dancing. The title was wholly appropriate since those diaries chronicled much of his own struggle